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Re: killthread script



Incoming from Matt Price:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Matt Price:
> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is
> > > 
> > > I have pretty good spamfilters up now, but I still find there's a bit
> > > too much info for me.  How does one implement a "killthread script"?
> > 
> > In mutt, type "?"  That shows ^D is mapped to delete thread (at least
> > here it is).
> > 
> ahh... I sort of thought that what was meant by "killthread" was a way
> to pre-emptively kill messages from a particular thread before they
> appear (ideally), this would either be done after procmail delivers
> the mail, or through some kind of dynamic addition to .procmailrc).  

You could add a sub-clause to your Debian lists recipe which greps a
file containing a list of subjects you don't want to see.  I think
Karsten mentioned "| formail ... >> bad_subject" or some such to seed
such a file.  It'll be in the archive somewhere (or was that in
comp.mail.mutt?).


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